New restaurants, bars and cafés in Chennai, with opening reports from the past 180 days. Explore Coming soon for the next arrivals.
New restaurants, bars and cafés in Chennai, with opening reports from the past 180 days. Explore Coming soon for the next arrivals.
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7 recent openings
A dessert stop playing with familiar Chennai flavours, from filter coffee to an unexpected thayir sadam gelato.
The appeal is in the flavours and small batch dessert craft. Visit for a scoop rather than a full dinner.
An intimate Korean diner above KUP Coffee Roasters, with guksu noodles, bulgogi and playful desserts.
A focused dinner spot for Korean flavours. Limited seats; reserve through the restaurant before visiting.
Chettinad flavours reworked into dishes such as crab rasam and curry-leaf mushroom tart.
Indulge’s firsthand review highlights a playful but food-focused new kitchen.
A garden restaurant with Yercaud coffee and dishes ranging from Scotch eggs to roti canai.
The chef’s Scotland experience shows in its British plates; a relaxed option for groups with varied tastes.
The Anna Nagar outpost combines sushi and Asian plates with coastal Indian dishes and cocktails.
Indulge highlighted the tori maki, Malabar prawn curry and drinks, while noting an issue with the tuna sashimi.
A compact restaurant for sushi, Asian plates and cocktails.
Indulge praised the nigiri, tofu and Japanese cheesecake; its review found some seafood dishes less consistent.
A Tamil kitchen serving crab rasam, seeraga samba biryani and patient regional preparations.
The cottonseed-milk halwa and slow-cooked mutton give this new branch a distinct reason to visit.
